and Nabokov is one of the world’s authorities on them.” Here, LIFE.com presents a series of pictures — made in and around Ithaca, N.Y., in 1958 by LIFE’s Carl Mydans — that illustrate ...

“Nabokov in America” is rewarding on all counts, as biography, as photo album (there are many pictures of people ... and a biography of legendary mountain climber Willi Unsoeld.

In Switzerland, Nabokov was reunited with the paradise of his Russian infancy. The lakes, the mountains, his adored Vera (his loyal collaborator) and his son Dmitri, who at the time lived in Milan ...

(Or did God mistype and was it a mountain?) As many have noted, Nabokov’s novel serves in the movie as a signifier of mirrored narratives — an acknowledgement that Joe’s childhood memories ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links ... in 1899, Vladimir Nabokov was destined, by history, to become peripatetic.